The bed carved from the olive

The Odyssey · Plate LXVI

The bed carved from the olive

The suitors are dead and Penelope still will not yield. Facing the washed and clothed man who says he is her husband, she tells Eurycleia to carry the bed out of the chamber and make it up there. It is a test disguised as hospitality.

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